Month: February 2011

A 1967 ICEL booklet provides commentary on the liturgical, historical, and linguistic considerations behind an earlier translation of the Roman Canon. We share it with you to show the specific reasons for decisions made in the 1960s, and also to allow you to see the 2010 translation against this background.

I would suggest that the key to the positive response to the three workshops I have facilitated thus far has been the result of the decision our task force made to not simply present the text of the Roman Missal but rather to use this as an opportunity to invite the faithful to consider more deeply how the liturgy brings us into interaction with the living presence of God — something the liturgy does regardless of the particular language or translation.

“If the ‘Confession: A Roman Catholic App’ makes that connection between heart, mind and voice that call us to an even deeper confession of Christ, then would the creators make an app for us Protestant worshipers as well?”

“I had hoped that what we got would be basically OK; from what I have seen so far, it’s mostly not OK. If it is a done deal, and if we are facing a sure implementation of this text, then all we can do is pray it as best we can and give it our best shot.”

More than 100 clergymen of the Diocese of Freiburg support the appeal for reform of the Church by Catholic professors. Cathedral rector Claudius Stoffel: “The critique comes from the broad middle of the Church, and people expect that we engage it.”

Critics of the soon-to-be-implemented translation find themselves in the position of learning from those whom they might normally consider their opponents, namely, those who enthusiastically welcome the new translation after having spent years praying a translation that they dislike.

Why are Millennials leaving the church? It’s simple. Mobile social computing has replaced the main draw of the traditional church: Social connection and affiliation. Basically, Facebook killed the church. May it rest in peace.